Pregnancy Progress: Week 5

"There's a baby in mommy's belly!"

How far along? 5 weeks

Total weight gain/loss: 0 lbs.

Maternity clothes? Nope

Stretch marks? Nope

Sleep: Some. I've got alot going on lately, so my mind wanders aimlessly and I have a hard time sleeping.

Best moment this week: Making the first doctor's appointment. However, I got a call today and I need to reschedule. Maybe I can get in next week...

Movement: Nope

Food cravings/aversions: Not much of anything sounds very appetizing. I have to eat every couple of house or I get shaky and feel light headed.

Gender: Unknown

Labor Signs: Nope

Belly Button in or out? In

What I miss: Energy. I feel exhausted doing the same things I was doing before I became pregnant. Oh, and I miss my memory/brain! This pregancy I am suffering from a bad case of "Pregnancy Brain". I had a half day at work on Tuesday, when I got out I drove straight home, pulled in the driveway and realized I forgot to pick-up my son! I've never forgotten him like that before. I felt like such a bad mom! Hopefully, the "Pregancy Brain" goes away soon!

What I am looking forward to: The first doctor's appointment, watching my belly grow, feeling the baby move, and finding out the gender.

Weekly Wisdom: Make sure to eat every couple of hours to keep the nausea, shakes, and dizziness away.

Pregnancy Progress: Week 4

How far along? 4 weeks

Total weight gain/loss: 0 lbs.

Maternity clothes? Nope

Stretch marks? Nope

Sleep: I have felt overly exhausted lately. I lay down to sleep and my mind wanders endlessly. But that could be something to do with everything that is currently going on in my life.

Best moment this week: Finding out we were pregnant on our 4th wedding anniversary. Spending our first night away from Seth to go on an overnight date.

Movement: Nope, just gas.

Food cravings: Home-made olive burgers

Gender: Unknown

Labor Signs: Nope

Belly Button in or out? In

What I miss: Feeding my Mt. Dew addiction. I've only been drinking a can a day and I'm trying to increase my water intake.

What I am looking forward to: The first doctor's appointment when we hear the heartbeat, the first ultrasound, feeling the baby move, finding out the sex, you know...the typical pregnancy stuff.

Weekly Wisdom: Women are pretty in touch with their body, so we know when we are pregnant. My husband wanted to wait a week after my missed period to take a pregnancy test. He didn't want to waste money on a pregnancy test that might give a negative result. I took the test the morning my period was supposed to start and it said I was pregnant. Yes, it was probably a very low amount of Hcg that was detected, but we got a positive result. And we were fortunate enough to be able to tell our parents in person.

Milestones: Finding out we are pregnant and sharing the news with family and friends.

It comes in threes.

So, this is a secret post that I'll share with everyone as soon as the time is "right".


Derrick and I have finally come to an agreement to try to get pregnant. However, this time around, we wanted our "trying" to be a surprise. I want you all to know that this has been very difficult for me to keep a secret.


In mid October 2009 I came off birth control. But we weren't really planning or tracking, let's just call it "practicing". I was hoping that we would get pregnant right around Christmas time and we could break the news to everyone as sort of a unique Christmas Gift! However, things didn't pan out like that for us. On Christmas Eve, I got my monthly visit from Aunt Flow.


On December 27, 2009 we got the news that Derrick's sister, Jenny and her husband, Tim were pregnant and are expecting in August of 2010. We didn't even know they were trying! But congrats were definitely in order.


Maybe Jenny had the same mindset that I did, when contemplating having another child. I don't want to be over the age of thirty and trying to have another child. Not only do your chances of multiples increase the older you are, not to mention, the fact that our bodies lose elasticity the older we get, making it less easy to bounce back to our pregnancy body over the age of thirty. I think my reasoning is pretty justifiable!


On January 14, 2009 we found out that Derrick's brother, Chad and his wife, Rebecca are also expecting their third child due September of 2010. Yet, another surprise pregnancy in the Decker family! And another congrats was in order.


It always comes in threes, so I thought for sure that this was the month I was going to be pregnant. My monthly cycle was set to start on January 21st and I was all set to take a test. I wanted to take the test on Saturday, January 16th, but Derrick insisted that I wait. "Pregnancy tests are expensive, there's no sense in taking it before you actually miss your period." I hesitated, but decided not take the test and at least wait until it got closer to the date my cycle was supposed to start. We enjoyed our extended weekend together and when I woke up Monday morning, my period had started. I'll be completely honest; I was upset, heart-broke, and disappointed. I just wanted to be sharing our joy of pregnancy news with everyone else also. But it just didn't happen this month.


In the mean time I'm sharing in the joys and blessings of all those who have recently become pregnant and those who have recently had babies! Congrats!

Things that come in threes:
• The floating cords used to play EVERY AC/DC song
• Three Blind Mice
• Captain Kirks ears: a left ear, right ear and a final front ear
• Monkeys: Hear no evil, See no evil, Speak no evil
• The Chipmunks
• Number of wheels on a tricycle
• Sides to a triangle
• Three Musketeers
• Power Puff Girls
• The Wonder Pets
• Guitar chords in punk music
• Reduce, reuse and recycle!
• The Dixie Chicks
• Celebrity deaths
• Three Little Pigs
• The Three Wise Men
• The Three Stooges
• Three Men and a Baby
• Rub-a-dub-dub THREE men in a tub
• Hockey forwards
• Crappy Hollywood sequels
• Tennis Balls Trilogies
• 3 Dog Night
• Three Days Grace
• Rings in a binder
• Faith, Hope and Love
• The Holy Trinity: The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit
• Neptune's Rings
• Amigos
• Donald Duck's nephews - Huey, Louie and Dewey
• Primary colors